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A dwarf planet circling the sun out beyond the orbit of Neptune has been rechristened Makemake after a Polynesian god and designated the third of the solar system’s new class of plutoids, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced Saturday. Makemake is a small, red-tinged world that ranks among the largest …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – In an homage to the running of the bulls in Spain, visitors to an Alaska winter festival will get the chance to run shoulder-to-shoulder with reindeer. For the inaugural Running of the Reindeer, about a dozen of the animals will be set loose Feb. 24 in downtown …

RENO, Nev. – The FBI and two investigators from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children joined the search for a 19-year-old college student who mysteriously vanished from a Reno, Nev., home early Sunday morning. Brianna Denison, a student at Santa Barbara City College, was staying with friends near …